Miles Kane

The Wirral's mod squirrel (also one half of Alex Turner's Last Shadow Puppets project) crashed into the top ten earlier this month with his second album, the glam-influenced Don't Forget Who You Are. He co-wrote with Paul Weller and Andy Partridge and the tunes rate about an 8.0 on 'Radar's northern swag-o-meter. More importantly, his live shows are great: frantic, sartorially astounding and with erratic bursts of guitar solos. His band are totally ace, too.